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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent

Trump appears to relax oil blockade on Cuba as Russian tanker arrives

person sits by water where boats go by
A fuel tanker in Matanzas Bay in Cuba in February. Photograph: EPA

Donald Trump appears to have relaxed his blockade on fuel-starved Cuba after a Russian tanker reached the Caribbean island carrying 100,000 tonnes of crude.

Russia’s transport ministry said the Anatoly Kolodkin tanker arrived at the port of Matanzas on Cuba’s northern coast on Monday to deliver the crisis-hit country’s first such cargo in more than three months.

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